The shifting market for new home sales has focused attention on ways to diversify portfolios by serving the renter community—renters by choice and those impacted by affordability challenges. The landscape for build to rent, quickly becoming a more mature and nuanced asset type, is shapeshifting around us. This session will feature three different perspectives on what’s next for the build to rent segment, explore the markets that are hot and not, and dive into the top ingredients in a successful community....

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Economic shocks, talent shortage, shifting demographics and consumer attitudes, affordability crisis, automation, AI, ESG. Builders today face a wide range of disruptive forces, requiring new vision and leadership. This panel of leaders will share their thoughts on the challenges facing our industry today—and what it will take to adapt, pivot and prosper into the future....

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Team members and partners in our workplaces and job sites make up the lifeline to customer value creation and success. This session will crystallize what commitment to employee value creation means, and how it bears directly on business profitability and growth. Becoming a “best place to work” or a “builder of choice” or a “most trusted partner” means looking through a new lens at how each member engages with a team’s purpose and in turn gains a feeling of value even as he, she, they devote effort, talent, and discipline up front. It’s an inside job, and this session will... Read More

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The U.S. housing market has slowed in response to rapidly rising home prices and a historic mortgage rate shock. The days of the turbocharged pandemic housing market are behind us, as mortgage rates have doubled from 2021 lows, the relocation boom is cooling, and housing monthly payments have pushed beyond reach for many. Ali Wolf, one of the industry’s most respected analysts, will decode the latest data on the housing market, highlight the regional differences, and parse out the varying market views of today’s buyers and sellers....

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We’ve all said it: “If only I had ________, then I could do ________.” We’re convinced that the only thing standing between us and our best work is more money, more time, more resources, more buy-in, a better team, a better boss, a better piece of software… the list goes on. But the truth is, creative work thrives within constraints. True creative work exists in the gap between what you have and what you think you need. It showed up when the Apollo 13 astronauts had to make square filters fit round tubes. It showed up when a global pandemic... Read More

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Led by Kyle Scheele, aka 'the patron saint of crazy ideas,' this unique session is geared to young professionals who are eager to unlock their creative potential to drive innovation. In an interactive workshop format, you'll learn how to identify and incubate your most audacious ideas (and those of your team) and explore ways to bring them to fruition, even when you're not the senior decision maker. You'll also discover how to "lead up" in situations where you want to drive change but need the buy-in of more senior leaders first. Take advantage of this fun, informal, supportive environment to... Read More

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Homebuilding’s No. 1 echo-chamber challenge, and the most-often-identified risk among the industry sector’s small, medium, and enterprise-level businesses, is building’s “frontline worker cliff.” Still, there are proven solutions to slowly turn the tide of losses to construction talent ranks, and this session will put those tactics into a light individual firms and their partners can begin applying immediately in the field. Addressing head-on a prevailing belief in construction talent ranks that jobs are dead-ends, with little to no opportunity to advance in a career or as an entrepreneur, this interactive work-group will focus on all the ways best practices organizations... Read More

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R&D, a lifeline of business resilience and customer-centered new product development, gets billions in investment from top consumer brands, healthcare leaders, and industrial innovators. This diamond mine of opportunity goes entirely untapped in homebuilding and residential development common practice. However, without breaking the budget, you can give your team both a competitive advantage and a path to business resiliency and sustainable success with a modest R&D commitment. This session’s thought and practice leaders will unpack insight data and discovery solutions proven to bring what consumers value most to light, while removing friction and uncertainty from your home and community design,... Read More

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We will discuss adopting an iterative process where the Land Owner/and/or Developer can evaluate existing and evolving data leading to an improved land development program. We will be basing our discussion on a real land development program. We will prepare 8 to 10 slides to support the discussion. Market Research will identify a range of products acceptable in the marketplace by researching home pricing, absorption and a preferred amenity package. This information will be provided to the land planner who will develop a conceptual land plan. The financial analyst will estimate all development costs. From this information, Land Residual cash... Read More

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